NY Times: Details of NBA Proposal and Potential "Reset Offer"

Pretty interesting and at least worth reading to understand where we are right now.

7 months ago madglove 3 comments 0 recs |

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Yeah.

I’m looking at this and trying to figure out how I would feel about this proposal if I was a player. The “reset” feature feels so arrogant and so coercive that my anger might overwhelm my need to just get it done. This attitude by the owners continues to puzzle me. It’s like, they don’t just want a deal, they want to shove the player’s face in it.

by John Raffo on Nov 7, 2011 7:41 PM PST reply actions

Definitely

That’s what’s really bothered me about these negotiations. Usually you may offer a bad deal, but try to get the other side to understand and sympathize with you as to why you need this kind of deal. But instead the owners have been trying to shove it down the players’ throats.

I really think that if they weren’t being such pricks about it, the players wouldn’t be reacting so emotionally.

by madglove on Nov 8, 2011 9:13 AM PST up reply actions

It all comes down to this

The owners can’t engender sympathy because this is a base attempt to get the players to pay for the owners’ revenue sharing, i.e., to enhance profits. There’s really no way around that. For the majority of the NBA players, it doesn’t matter since their salaries won’t be substantially different. Stated another way, there is nothing wrong with the deal for the vast majority of players. It matters, however, to the stars. The owners have to force it down the throats of the players because otherwise the rank and file will feel comfortable standing with the stars.

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by Jax on Nov 8, 2011 10:29 AM PST up reply actions